A Tendency to Close the Eyes to a Painful Truth

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it."
-Patrick Henry (1736-1799)

"Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it."  Jeremiah 5:1